The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 60
I expect now that you should tell me whether what you have brought is to be compared with this carpet.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: expect, tell, be, compare · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 expect | nsubj |
| 2 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 expect | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 expect | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 brought | mark |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 compared | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 compared | aux:pass |
| 17 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 brought | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 carpet | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 carpet | det |
| 20 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 compared | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 expect | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present | I | now | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | should | you | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present · passive | what nsubj:pass; you nsubj; bring property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | compare | to-infinitive · passive | with this carpet | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: with carpet=Co-Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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